Mein Kopf ist leer

A phrase we learnt in German class yesterday. 'My head is empty.'
Indeed what I feel today.
Been in a semi-sick mode since Mon.
Today I couldn't get myself out of bed. Was freezing even under my quilt so I emailed my bosses, asked to be excused and laid in bed almost the whole day, drank tea, and read a Terry Pratchett book and finished more than half the book.
After my friend made us crepes for dinner he went out with our group of friends for drinks in the Neckarmueller. Sensibly I've chosen to stay home. But feeling kinda lonely now. I don't know if it's just me, I tend to feel more homesick (if I'm not at home) or lonely when I'm sick. Sigh...

Anyhow, have some good news (well, sort of), we were emailed some of our exam results the past few days and although not brilliant, I passed everything (so far) and surprisingly wasn't at the bottom of the list.

And my first experiment in the lab yielded interesting results. I did some transfections (plasmid and viral) on my primary cell cultures last week. I sat quietly behind the ever-busy Prof yesterday, holding my breath while she looks into the fluorescent microscope at my slides. She's a really cool Prof, guides u along encouragingly, very enthusiastic about her work and also expects much from her lab. She made some sounds and I was so worried, unsure about what they could mean... I was really happy to know that one of my plasmid transfections worked, i.e. there was a beautiful picture! But there were some problems with the others, either the Prof didn't find any cells, or the surviving ones looked bad. So, there're plans to repeat these experiments and I've to find out what went wrong (or right for that matter so I could do it again). I'm excited to do them again.

Hmm... think I shall now go watch some TV series online or maybe continue with my Terry Pratchett book, try to take some edge off that loneliness. ha.